![]() ![]() I initially got introduced to this when I had a prepaid landline unit from BayanTel more than a decade ago. “Landline” pertains to having a local number access - something that can be directly dialed from another landline without having to pay cellular call rates. “Wireless” pertains to the fact that it runs on a mobile network. The concept of a “wireless landline” might be silly at first - it’s an oxymoron after all!īut think of it this way. After all, the immediacy of a phone call and the nuances of speech-based communication is something that might easily be missed with text messages. It can also be a reliable way to keep in touch. “It’s a social contract: You call, and someone answers!”įor businesses or households, this also means you can easily be reached by landline as well, for callbacks. ![]() If you watched the recently-released Babysitter’s Club on Netflix, you’ll see how they rationalized the need for landline service in an age of smartphones and instant messaging. There’s the comfort that there’s an actual person at the other end of the line listening to your needs. For example, while online food ordering services have taken most locales by storm, there is still some advantage to actually talking to someone on the phone when you place your order. However, the landline still has its uses. Because they’re just as instantaneous, but provide you the ability to think over your words, they’re more comfortable and precise communication forms. This generation grew up with the gradual introduction of instant messaging, texting, email, and other forms of written communication. But why is this the case? It could be one or more of several reasons. Phones aren’t used to make phone calls anymore. In contrast, today’s millennial generation has an “aversion to phone calls” writes business consultant Larry Alton. I burned up the lines talking for hours with my girlfriend (who eventually became my beloved late wife). I also ran a dial-up BBS system in the mid-1990s from my laptop years before the internet became commercially viable in the Philippines. I grew up in the era of pulse-based and rotary phones. I grew up experiencing having to wait years for a PLDT landline application to be processed. With the ubiquity of mobile phones, the concept of calling someone on a wired phone is somewhat relegated to the office or call center setting. The landline is perhaps one of the relics of the 20th century that not many enjoy today. ![]()
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